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Originally Posted by Halibut
Haha! Thanks, Chicken. I may start responding with, "Merry mindless gift-giving and angry, divisive debates over nativity scenes in town squares to you, too!"
Oddly enough, it doesn't bother me at Easter or when someone says "God bless you" or tells me to "Have blessed day in The Villages!" At least then I know they're doing it on purpose, out of a sense of Christian testimony or whatever. I guess I just find Christmas to be suffocating in general.
Even if the customer is wearing an abaya?  |
I think you've kind of pinned down your feeling with that sentence, and the many Merry Christmas wishes of others point to that stifled feeling. My Jewish brother-in-law feels the same way about Christmas. Even though Christmas is celebrated in their family because his wife is Christian, it is kept very low key. A tree but no other decorations, and a few gifts but not a deluge. In the beginning of their marriage, he could almost get depressed at the overabundance of it all.